{"product_id":"ares-express-1616141972-used","title":"Ares Express","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1616141972\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e McDonald, Ian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald's Desolation Road, this novel is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet's circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second. One young woman, Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim 12th, becomes the person upon whom the future - or futures - of Mars depends. Big, picaresque, funny; taking the Mars of Ray Bradbury and the more recent, terraformed Marses of authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Greg Bear, Ares Express is a wild and woolly magic-realist SF novel, featuring lots of bizarre philosophies, strange, mind-stretching ideas and trains as big as city blocks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52341311406368,"sku":"USED1616141972","price":11.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/41cjDD56F1L_28130b97-01a8-4ff5-a423-36e2eeb613c7.jpg?v=1789153451","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/ares-express-1616141972-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}